CLASSIC AND FINE MINERAL COLLECTION LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - END MARCH 31, 2022

Diversity is a highlight of this week's eclectic auction featuring a variety of classics, rarities, recent finds and many species you don't see in auctions. Specimens from the Hefendehl, Bill & Anne Cook, Kidwell, Larson and Rossi collections are featured, along with others.  Highlights include:

1. Superb ELPIDITE
2. AZURITE "sun"
3. TOURMALINE
4. Rare large California COLEMANITE and rare old HALITE specimens
5. AJOITE in QUARTZ
6. Classic and rare large ALMANDINE GARNET
7. Selections of large cabinet sized specimens including OPAL, MANGANOAN CALCITE, SMITHSONITE, FLUORITE & SMOKY QUARTZ
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Pyromorphite (2 generations)
Bunker Hill Mine, Yreka Mining Dist., Shoshone Co., Idaho, USA
4.4 x 3.0 x 2.9 cm
Winning Bid: $280
Uvarovite (Type Locality) on Chromite (Hefendehl Coll.)
Saranovskii Mine, Gornozavodskii Dist., Perm Krai, Russia
7.3 x 5.4 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $150
superb Spinel-twinned Galena w/ Calcite (Hefendehl Coll.)
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
7.0 x 6.6 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $415
Brochantite w/ Heterogenite
Kabolela Mine, Kambove, Lualaba, DR Congo
6.5 x 4.9 x 3.0 cm
Winning Bid: $259
Color-zoned Fluorite (rare style - fluorescent)
Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
5.6 x 3.8 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $525
Descloizite (classic locale)
Berg Aukas Mine, Grootfontein, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
7.9 x 6.6 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $110
Bizarre Calcite (Mn-bearing) w/ Calcite (fluorescent!)
Huanggang Fe-Sn deposit, Hexigten Banner, Inner Mongolia, China
15.3 x 10.5 x 9.1 cm
Winning Bid: $530
Unusual tabular Smoky Quartz (Cook Coll.)
Macaco mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
15.6 x 9.1 x 0.9 cm
Winning Bid: $210
Spessartine Garnet w/ Muscovite & Quartz (Bill Larson Garnet Coll.)
Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
4.8 x 3.2 x 2.7 cm
Winning Bid: $411
Amethyst w/ Epidote (old classic)
Piedra Parada (Las Vigas), Veracruz, Mexico
9.1 x 7.9 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Mimetite (famous 1968 find) Williams and Rossi Coll.
Congreso-Leon Mine, San Pedro Corralitos, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.9 x 4.0 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $435
Bi-colored Smithsonite (old classic)
El Refugio Mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico
13.6 x 11.1 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $410
Yttrofluorite on Calcite with Calcite (new finds)
Qinglong Mine, Qinglong Co., Qianxinan, Guizhou, China
12.4 x 8.0 x 5.6 cm
Winning Bid: $389
Pectolite (Kidwell Coll.)
Upper New Street Quarry, Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey, USA
8.2 x 7.3 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $257
Calcite (uncommon PA locale- fluorescent) Lemanski Coll.
Valley Quarry, Shippensburg, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania, USA
8.6 x 7.7 x 6.3 cm
Winning Bid: $65
Sphalerite & Galena (rare style) ex. Van Tichelen Coll.
Fossey Mine, Astenet, Liege, Wallonia, Belgium
9.8 x 7.8 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $90
Chrysoprase (polished - 2018/2019 find)
Szklary Chrysoprase Mine, Szklary, Zabkowice Slaskie Co., Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
4.2 x 3.0 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Iridescent Goethite on Malachite (rare - 2016-2017 finds)
Sepon Mine, Vilabouly Dist., Savannakhet Province, Laos
6.3 x 5.6 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $379
Heulandite on Mordenite
Rat's Nest claim, Challis, Custer Co., Idaho, USA
10.8 x 7.8 x 6.2 cm
Winning Bid: $155
Fluoro-richterite in Calcite & Biotite/Phlogopite (Rossi Coll.)
Wilberforce area, Haliburton Co., Ontario, Canada
12.8 x 12.6 x 7.2 cm
Winning Bid: $250
large rare Colemanite (Reynolds Coll.)
East Coleman Mine, Furnace Creek, Inyo Co., California, USA
20.0 x 13.7 x 9.0 cm
Winning Bid: $150
Fluorite
Melchor Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico
14.2 x 10.3 x 6.8 cm
Winning Bid: $330
superb large Elpidite cluster - (classic locale) Cook Coll.
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
14.3 x 7.3 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,227
Pyrite replacing Fossil Ammonite (Jurassic) Dr. B. Phillips Coll.
England
11.0 x 10.1 x 3.2 cm
Winning Bid: $462
Zircon & Microcline (both fluorescent) on Aegerine
Mount Malosa, Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi
8.8 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $260
Quartz w/ Limonite coating (rare Swiss style) Brent Lockhart Coll.
Elm, Glarus Sud, Glarus, Switzerland
12.2 x 9.4 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $505
Calcite (old classic) Fluck & Flynn Coll.
Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England
3.6 x 3.0 x 2.8 cm
Winning Bid: $169
Calcite (RARE CA locale) Ordway & Reynolds Coll.
I-15 roadcut, Alberhill, Riverside Co., California, USA
13.8 x 9.5 x 4.2 cm
Winning Bid: $135
Djurleite and Chalcocite "Copper wood" w/ Silver veins (RARE New Mexico)
Nacimiento Mine, San Pablo, Sandoval Co., New Mexico, USA
11.8 x 11.4 x 4.8 cm
Winning Bid: $240
Unusual Baryte (New Mexico) Willard Wulff Coll.
Juanita Mine, Magdalena Dist., Socorro Co., New Mexico
6.7 x 6.0 x 5.2 cm
Winning Bid: $180